[digitalzombie]

I agree that fundamental is everything.

I just believe that almost everything in life is a skill and skill requires practice.

I've came across a research paper about deliberate practice and Peter Novig article about Teach yourself how to program in ten years.

This resonate and reinforce my belief of practices is everything.

As for the intricate of how, I'm more of a visual and kinestic kind of learner. Auditory suck. Also I need a book, I sit down and write notes first and then do problems. From there I usually look for a video on that subject for a secondary source. Most of the time a secondary source will give a different view on the subject matter and I get insight at a different point of view. Or that the second source explain it more better or fill in stuff that I didn't realize I gloss over or missed.